Re: [luau] Any Open Source Programmers?

2002-10-18 Thread burnst001
I'm curious how many other people on this list are open source developers, particularly those living on O'ahu. I do mostly Java development Sort of - I was planning to do some open source development in java, but it got put on hold when a) I began trying to get up to speed on linux and b) I

Re: [luau] Re: Graphic art design

2002-10-18 Thread Joe Linux
I think this message is right on target. People want help, are willing to pay for it, ask for it, and then are hit with an arrogant message about "netiquette" by an essentially self appointed, self styled net patrolman. I can really relate to you (Neal Gay) not wanting to be forced into

Re: [luau] Policy Discussion

2002-10-18 Thread Joe Linux
Just drop it, and give people some space. Warren Togami wrote: Would everyone agree for the list policy that asking for someone to do a job is okay? In the case of Edward's request, it was completely off-topic. Should requests be restricted to on-topic things that are remotely related to

Re: [luau] Re: Graphic art design

2002-10-18 Thread Joe Linux
My opinion is still remains that if he can get personal help setting up his one system, for his own needs, it would be a "win win" situation for all involved. Taking courses is a long process, and courses are hit and miss in addressing his actual need. linuxdan wrote: Neal The

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Joe Linux
I agree fully with you, but I guess at this point I see this as problem where a single individual is enforcing policy where no policy exists. Now you can ask is the problem do to a lack of policy or an individual who makes up policy on the spot, with little thought as he goes along. Since I

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Joe Linux
If you know this, how come you immediately pounce on someone for "spamming" when it's obvious in the first place that they are not Linux users? I do know I dropped Oceanic Road Runner in favor of Oceanic Earthlink for the very reason that the "SMTP" server was stalling out and we were having

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Joe Linux
Interestingly since I switched to Earthlink Cable, (through Oceanic) I have been getting no spam, but on my old RR account which for some reason is still active, the only thing I get is SPAM. Another benefit of Earthlink is that you get nation wide dial up included with the Hawaii cable modem

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Joe Linux
It seems to me, you should be the last person worried about being personally affected by SPAM. Warren Togami wrote: I personally trust that a combination of the three works very well after configuration. I have something like 99.99% effective spam filtering now, with no false positives for

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 03:18, Joe Linux wrote: It seems to me, you should be the last person worried about being personally affected by SPAM. Yes, and now you're going on my blacklist. I can't stand you.

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread al plant
Warren Togami wrote: Many of the multiple postings are the fault of Outlook Express, where in some cases if you click Send but the SMTP server is stalling, it sometimes sends it multiple times. I don't recall seeing any other mailers do this. ### Thanks for the clarification. I only

Re: [luau] News - Impressions of SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread Dean Fujioka
SuSE 8.0 works fine on my Duron 700 no optical mouse or Geforce2 though. dean Joe Linux wrote: I was just at installfest in Denver and one member of the group tried to install SuSE 8.1 on a Duron 700 machine running an Geforce 2 card and a M$ optical mouse and SuSE 8.1 locked up very

[luau] News - UH ITS dept evaluating Spam blocking

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
University of Hawaii ITS department is looking for spam blocking solutions, this article specifically mentions that they are looking at Spam Assassin among other tools. I just got off the phone with someone in the ITS department and will soon be assisting in implementation. Here's hoping that

[luau] Macromedia Flash 6 beta for Linux released

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flashplayer_beta.htm I am happy to report that the crash problems over X displays seems to be fixed in this version of the plugin. Finally LTSP clients should finally be able to use Flash. It should be noted that this is the first time a beta

Re: [luau] Almost full /usr partition....

2002-10-18 Thread Ben Beeson
Rick, Thanks for your help. That will probably do what I need to do for now. When I upgrade to my next rev, I'll wipe my drives and start over with a better file plan Yes, it's Linux, RH 7.2 for now... Thanks again, Ben On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:23 pm, you

Re: [luau] News - UH ITS dept evaluating Spam blocking

2002-10-18 Thread Ray Strode
Warren Togami wrote: University of Hawaii ITS department is looking for spam blocking solutions, this article specifically mentions that they are looking at Spam Assassin among other tools. Yeah i read about that in the paper this morning. I'm curious tho, 1) spamassassin is pretty

Re: [luau] News - UH ITS dept evaluating Spam blocking

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: Ray Strode [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [luau] News - UH ITS dept evaluating Spam blocking Yeah i read about that in the paper this morning. I'm curious tho, 1) spamassassin is pretty processor

Re: [luau] News - UH ITS dept evaluating Spam blocking

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
Cool, I've just been informed that they have two SunFire 480's dedicated for Spam Assassin, and they are currently thinking about implementation based upon the UC Irvine design. I'm not sure what this design is, but will investigate.

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Eric Hattemer
For a while, USC was on certain lists for opening their mail servers or accidentally opening them to relay. -Eric Hattemer On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 22:07, Warren Togami wrote: . not. While pattern matching is subject to occasional errors, blacklists and Vipul's Razor should NEVER have

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Eric Hattemer
I do have to say that Warren has a point. 8 Posts in a row all about the same subject. It would be appreciated if you could generally combine your posts into fewer. This isn't a threaded forum. -Eric Hattemer On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 06:18, Joe Linux wrote: It seems to me, you should be the

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
Then frankly, it is the fault of the administrator there, but the nice thing about SpamAssassin with conservative settings is that you probably wont be marked as spam if ONLY you are on an open relay blacklist, because it combines several other methods in determining a spam score. Open Relay